DeepMind's new AI predicts how tiny DNA changes affect specific cells
Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome 2, trained on more than 100 million individual cells from 68 tissues. It predicts how a single-letter change in DNA alters what happens inside particular cell types, such as heart muscle or immune cells.
Why it matters
Most disease-linked DNA changes sit in parts of the genome scientists still barely understand, and there are far too many to test one by one in a lab. DeepMind says the new model finds nearly twice as many important variants as the previous best, and academic researchers can use it for free.
SourceGoogle DeepMind